Bernie's math consists of a single number. That number is 1. Bernie is not now, nor is he planning to help get Democrats elected to national and state office. Bernie can bleat all he wants about revolution, but as long as he is fixated on just his election, he can never actually produce a revolution. President Obama has accomplished much in spite of a belligerent congress, but he has enormous skill in out thinking his opponents. Bernie has only one method for getting things done, that is to whine, whine, whine. Well, it won't work. Bernie needs a congress that will actually enact legislation. And Bernie shows ZERO sign of realizing that.

9:47 - No, I've never met him. I did talk to him once on the radio on Thom Hartmann's show. I am still dumbfounded by Hartmann's awful tweets during this primary (including the one this week with Bernie and an assault weapon) but Tim Robbins takes the cake after yesterday.

11:49 - Do you know where Sandy Hook is? Did you know that CT is voting today? Now, how, exactly, is this a positive tweet for Bernie? It's extremely distasteful and tone deaf. https://twitter.com/Thom_Hartmann/status/723328859978895361

@ 12:16 pmI never said it was positive, I said it was truthful. And actually Bernie's views of the Sandy Hook families that were fighting for the right to take the arms manufacturers to court was distasteful and frankly just what the NRA told him to do. THe tweet that you are so worried about showed your candidates stance and nothing less and nothing more.

Oh please. That is always the case. Every election-remember the Tea Baggers? They had 'had it' with the stars quo, so they elected people like Rubio and Cruz. Yup, sure not your typical Senators who go to DC to work. Where are those Tea Baggers now? They aren't voting for Trump. Or Cruz. Or Kasich. Are they holing up with their guns and their stupid signs waiting for Cleveland?

The poor people didn't vote.Hillary didn't let people vote for Bernie.No one understands Bernie and why they should have voted for him.Hillary has big money donors so all the millions Bernie spent don't count.

And then, when the results match exactly or nearly exactly what the folks at fivethirtyeight.com prognosticated, from the polls, people will still be saying Bernie was gypped because [insert your favorite excuse here].

How can an election go the way the polls predicted it would and have it still be the result of chicanery? I'd believe the charges ... if there were any evidence to prove Sanders would have won New York, for example, but there was never any aggregate of all polling taken that did not have Clinton with a huge lead. Were the polls all rigged too? Was fivethirtyeight.com in collusion with them to support Hillary? What rubbish!

Bet we'll see the same tonight - Hillary will win most if not all primaries, by the exact or nearly exact margin 538.com predicted based on polling data, and Sanders supporters will still try to say the results were rigged.

What is annoying is insisting over and over since February that it's impossible for Sanders to win because the Math says so. The Math doesn't say it's impossible for Sanders to win even now. Clinton has to have won 2,026 pledged delegates for it to be impossible for Sanders to win. Math says Clinton can't get to 2,026 pledged delegates before the June 7 primaries even if she won every delegate in every primary between now and June 7. If it were really over, Hillary would save her money and her health and stop campaigning. But she hasn't and she won't because she knows she doesn't have it in the bag yet no matter what her minions insist about the Math.

You're an idiot. She can't stop campaigning. She'll be campaigning every day until November. One difference 4is that she is not shirking her paid for by the citizens job to do so, unlike Kasich, Cruz and Sanders.

Plus, maybe this is your first election, but there's no stopping a campaign when you know you're going to be running in the general. She's already campaigning against Trump and/or Cruz while continuing to gather votes for the remaining primaries.

No, you're right. It's not impossible for Sanders to win. If all the polls and data up to this point are completely wrong, he could totally get the nomination.

Or, if most if not all the superdelegates abandon the candidate who has, by far, the most votes and who has unceasingly supported state and local democrats, Sanders could totally pull it out at the convention.

It has nothing to do with polls, data, superdelegates or dreams. It's pure pledged delegate Math: Until Clinton has won 2,026 pledged delegates,it's not impossible for Sanders to win. Math says Clinton can't win enough delegates to get to 2,026 pledged delegates before June 7.

On Clinton's health: She's not a healthy woman. She's obese. She's gotten so fat she waddles. She's admittedly hypothyroid. She's had a chronic cough since February.

@anon 11:25amHillary's health is just fine. BTW most people over 50 have thyroid issues they just don't know it. Thyroid issues are easily controlled by simple meds. Hillary's Dr says her health is just fine, but it seems Bernie hasn't released any documentation about his health why is that? Is he trying to cover up his obvious dementia?

11:25 - What a misogynist! You are living in BERNIE WORLD. President Obama used super delegates to win; Hillary will do so as well. There is no way for Bern Bern to win. Maybe after tonight you'll finally get it.

Do you love the Sanders? If so, I urge you to take those exact same "Health" concerns listed above to the Sanders' campaign on behalf of Jane Sanders. She needs to lose weight for the sake of her health, and Bernie gets very red-faced on TV. Bernie coughs, too. (Honestly, he needs a good long rest. Maybe he and Jane can go to an academic conference in Fiji in June.)

Pointing out someone's obvious health problems isn't misogyny. I'm a woman. Hillary IS obese. She had a serious concussion and blood clot. Huma Abedin says she gets confused. She's hypothyroid. Even SNL makes fun of her cough. She makes fewer appearances and gives shorter speeches. Sanders' regularly gives 3 speeches a day lasting 75 minutes and gives several interviews. Sanders does not get "red in the face" and Jane isn't a candidate although she's overweight too. But not as fat as Clinton. BTW, Sanders has released a letter from his doctor, just like Clinton.

I find it very hard to believe you're a woman. I also find it very hard to believe you're a Sanders supporter. Your talking points about Clinton's health sound like they were taken directly from a Briebart or Red State post.

Anonymous 10:14 AM wrote: And if you believe that … (namely "That Some Are Actually Bowing Out")

Anonymous 9:53 AM did not write that ALL are actually bowing out.Anonymous 9:53 AM did not write that MOST are actually bowing out.Anonymous 9:53 AM did not even write that MANY are actually bowing out.Anonymous 9:53 AM only wrote that SOME are actually bowing out, and linked to an article that named names.

If you have evidence that even one of the parties named in the linked article is not actually bowing out, then you have some justification for your snarky disagreement.

Yes, it's your blog, so you get to write what you want. Bernie is far from a perfect candidate, but for some of us >50 years old, he is a reminder of a time when America was progressive. Now, that concept is so foreign we call it "socialism". Hillary is the best choice, but she'll have to prove herself. My biggest fear is that she is such a hawk, and will want to prove that a woman can be "commander-in-chief", that she'll get us into one or more ground wars. So, keep cheering for Hillary; it is your blog. You do, though, seem to be missing the point of Bernie. It's not about Bernie. It's about an America that many of us hope to see again that only Bernie talks about. Hillary shows little interest in bringing us back toward a more progressive, and compassionate, center. So, my plea to you would be to understand why people support Bernie and get your Hillary supporters to consider pushing your candidate a little more to the left. Now, as is your and everyone elses right, go ahead and flame me for not supporting you and Hillary 100%.

10:15 - I don't flame you at all, but I would like to point out that Hillary has moved Sanders to the left on major issues as well, such as: gun control and women's rights, including reproductive rights.

It was eye-opening to me to read Bernie's old rape fantasy essay from 1972. Thank goodness he says now that it was stupid; I think running against a woman probably had something to do with that, since he had never disavowed it before in 40+ years.

I agree with you. I remember all those progressive Dems from the 60s and 70s. When I first registered to vote (1968) it was to primary for a real progressive in CT- who didn't make it, as was the case with most of those I supported who were just too progressive for the rest of the country.

The thing about Hillary is that whatever goals she has (like gun control and equal pay for equal work) she's more likely to achieve (if anyone can with a Republican Congress) because she can play the system. Can you imagine 4 years of Bernie berating the Congress (and everyone else)?

I wheeled my 95 year old mom into her local polling place this morning to cast a vote for Hillary- so excited to be voting for a woman!

I thank you for this post. This is exactly what so many are missing about how important Bernie's campaign has been. It has awakened the millennials in a way that has been profound. And it has given the progressive agenda the biggest boost in decades. I'm not a Bernie supporter, nor am I a Hillary supporter, per se. I will vote for whichever candidate stops the GOP from getting anywhere near the White House. But that doesn't stop me from seeing the huge value that Bernie has brought to the conversation and I find it incredulous that liberals/progressives aren't seeing this. This election seems the only narrow focus, not the bigger more visionary picture of what has been awakened in these young citizens who will be living their lives as the future of this country.

Anonymous 10:15 AM wrote: It's about an America that many of us hope to see again that only Bernie talks about.

In 2010, so many Democrats were so disappointed with President Obama for not achieving all the miracles they expected of him that (please forgive me for reminding you of this) Republican candidates won big. At the state level. In a census year. Redistricting, as I trust you are aware, is generally a partisan operation conducted at the state level. The resultant gerrymandering can be expected to be with us at least until after the 2020 census.

Until then, any Democratic president will be working to achieve things in the face of a significantly hostile Congress.

I hope that the America you speak of will be restored in Bernie's (and my!) lifetime, but I see him—accurately or otherwise—more as "pointing the way" rather than as "drawing a map".

Perhaps if he had got himself elected in 2008, before the redistricting. …

It has been disavowed by the Bros4Hillary Leadership Team - https://www.facebook.com/groups/bros4hillary/permalink/1740610886160594/

Think harder. Why would HRC's campaign or her true allies do something like this on the eve of victory? They wouldn't. Facebook says the sites were down for 3 hours; seems like FB needs to step up their security, too.

@ anon 10:34 amYes I need proof, maybe you should get proof before posting lies. Typical BernieBro, can't think for themselves just spread whatever lies they want to without using any critical thinking skills first.

@11:42Ya know you can get paid to troll for Hillary?"correct the record"hahahahahahaha!https://pivotamerica.com/milliondollartrolls-trending-twitter-hillarys-paid-trolls-get-6-bernie-groups-removed-facebook-200000-subscribers/

What are Bernie and Jane hiding in their taxes? Why won't they release them? Jane keeps lying and saying they will, then they don't! For someone running on a financial reform platform, t's very strange not to have tax transparency! http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/04/bernie-sanders-tax-returns-hillary-clinton-transcripts-222457

You would think, logically anyway, that if you were far enough left to see Bernie as your guy, that if he isn't the nom you would vote the next most left leaning candidate. What I don't understand is how if Bernie loses they can stay home and not vote at all if moving the country left is so important to them.

First. It is yer site G. People come here fer many reasons and articles! Sometimes to form opinion or discuss!. Its easy to piss off anyone these days. Meanwhile back at stump,,, The R's and D's have their loyal active voters. The I's are many, silent, and not organized. They could not vote in many primaries due to rules. If Senator Sanders jumped in as Independent, which is what he is. His voters could demand paper ballot, write him in, and demand physical count with camara, audio, spotters, marshalls lol etc. He should not secede because his actual voters have not voted yet in majority of states due to rules, not income. Sadly po people vote without representation.

Well, anon at 12:41 pm, this Hillary Clinton supporter has sent contributions to the Clinton campaign and, guess what, has not be "paid" by the campaign! Hillary Clinton in running a proper campaign, not a smear fest like the one that the "Berniebros" are spreading about. And Hillary Clinton's a Democrat like me. I'm sure she's as proud to be a Democrat as I am. Beaglemom

And Politico has a piece on Bernie Logic after conflicting statements from Jane, his wife and one of his revolution advisers. Jane says they reevaluate at the end and the advisers say they reevaluate every day. Jane, his wife, also says "The revolution will go on" no matter if Bernie or Hillary is the nominee.

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